As the Nicaraguan police and their attendant pro-government "militia" invaded the poor neighborhood of Managua known as "Americas 1," where residents are routinely harassed, Karina Navarette and her husband took her two children to a relative's house, where they were to be watched, as usual, while Mama worked in a nearby residence. On the way, they saw "several armed men, ready to shoot." That's when all hell broke loose:

"They were all dressed in black and hooded and began to shoot at them. 'My husband who was carrying the baby turned back to see and that's when the bullet hit my baby's head. We left running and there a boy helped us and they took him to the hospital, but there they told us that he was already dead."